An international team of educationalists has undertaken the difficult task of exploring those neglected districts and researching the meander of various school assessment systems followed in order to draw more academic conclusions and reconsider the...

From Corpus to Classroom summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing particularly on spoken data. It is based on analysis of corpora such as CANCODE and Cambridge International Corpus, and written with particular...

The title of this book comes from James Joyce?s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In one of its most memorable fragments, Stephen Dedalus calls English an acquired speech, ?so familiar and so foreign?, in whose shadow his soul frets. Today,...

Dr. Agnieszka Bieńczyk - Missala is a lecturer at the Institutei of International Relations of the Warsaw University and an analist at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. She is engaged in problems of human rights and democracy,...

Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which leave much to the reader's imagination. This collection contains some...

This collection of 100 of O Henry's finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America's best and best-loved short story writers The variety of the storie is amazing; O Henry is as at home describing life south of the Rio Grande...

This publication provides an overview of selected policies of the European Union. It combines a general and analytical approach. Written in a lively and pungent style, this book is a tour de force.
The book falls into overlapping parts: Common...

William Blake was an engraver, painter and visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets. His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth, Ruskin, W.B.Yeats, and more recently...